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07/14/2019 11:40:29 AM · #1 |
Don,  Posthumous your essay steals the heart, not the photos....even with the fatal errors (on viewing), or maybe that’s a clue. |
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07/14/2019 12:01:31 AM · #2 |
A tribute to langdon and congratulations to mitalapo. Looking forward to the future of DPC!
Message edited by author 2019-07-14 10:36:12. |
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04/08/2019 02:54:18 AM · #3 |
Poetography late addition due to circumstances
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04/02/2019 08:00:27 PM · #4 |
Don, you looked at the images of the world and like the Prophet you cried out
Please continue |
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04/02/2019 12:15:30 PM · #5 |
| Thank you, Don, for your beautiful testament to our versatile and creative imagery. We will definitely keep going. |
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04/02/2019 09:23:42 AM · #6 |
| Don, flat out wonderful, and as that word is wrought. It's fascinating how you've stitched together these images, and through your impressions of them weaved a coherent poem of drive and beauty. And it demonstrates your integrated vision, a glimpse of the pattern of your thoughts expressed through the prisms of imagery and heartfelt sympathy. Thank you. I can only hope we can continue to be invited to your feast. |
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04/02/2019 04:56:45 AM · #7 |
Don, a photo essay without using a camera? Those words are powerful and a nice way to wrap up the March side challenge.
I enjoy going to your profile and reading your comments so many of these I have already had the pleasure of reading. I find it fascinating which images inspire you to write a some poetry. Maybe it's the photo, or maybe the moment, possibly a bit of both. Happy to see we can inspire you as you do us. Thanks |
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04/02/2019 02:48:13 AM · #8 |
Don ..
posthumous
a beautiful testiment to all that goes on here ..
the creativity .. the enthusiasm .. the validation .. the inspiration ..
thankyou so much for posting all these wonderful images ..
loved reading your words .. so rich and deep ..
just beautiful ..
am i crazy that i felt a bit teary reading them .. ?? ..
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04/01/2019 10:45:18 PM · #9 |
Keep Going
a stolen photo essay
(essay by posthumous photos by you)
Your mind is full of closed doors that you don't even know are there, or don't know are closed.
Keep going and something will swing open.
How beautiful it is while dormant,
like that junkie you fell in love with who is so beautiful while she’s sleeping. But keep going.
It might have seemed like a failure to you but failure is beautiful. You traveled back 100 years and haunted the world. Keep going.
O mighty Rooster of the Cubists, keep crowing.
Look at that rake. It's an icon of work that stands amid the appreciation of beauty for its own sake. But without the work there is no beauty.
So keep going.
The Lion of the Impossible says to keep roaring.
Your red shoes, like lipstick slashing a plain face, were made for walking.
Eat something, it’ll help.
Food is probably the most beautiful thing I have ever known.
The lettuce is twinkling.
If ever a pineapple could be worthy of topping a Neapolitan pizza, it would be this one.
The banana plays a better game of chess than I do.
The banana's move could not be duplicated by a chess piece. A rook and a queen could do it in two moves. A knight would need three moves. A king would need five. The pawn and the bishop couldn't do it at all, like this poor moon who broke itself trying to do all the phases at once:
like a two dimensional photograph of a two dimensional vine pretending to be a three dimensional tree,
like a wall pretending to be a sky, like ground pretending to be ground,
like looking through an old microscope at disillusioned snowflakes,
like the elegant composition of a suicide. Keep going. There are other worlds to be found.
Worlds hide in our weirdness, I'm convinced
The photographer flattens these worlds, hopefully with some heat.
Worlds of dry and wet, memories of hunger. It's all here, the worms, the beach, the shooting stars:
Keep going until you reach a reverse Damascus, falling off of God and seeing a donkey.
That's how I feel sometimes, like I'm looking backwards for myself but there's nothing there.
Let the photograph be your map. Let it chart your emotions with implied geography and symbolism, like a dog moving into a dead end.
It was written in gold: directions to the past, annotations to a map carefully orchestrating the minute you were lost.
Or let the map take you home again.
By keeping the house completely below the sky except for the chimney, you make a house out of the entire landscape. the effect is unbearably cozy.
Or you can make a house ascend over the horizon, separating it from its surroundings:
except that it's drowning in a sad imitation of the sea,
except that it’s stopped at a sad imitation of a traffic light.
tangled in the frantic drawings of trees,
until it’s hard to know where you end and I begin.
The only direction for us is to keep going. Don’t be afraid to peek through the curtains.
A good photo makes you feel the water. It makes you feel like water. It waters you.
Keep swimming. What we see through defines what we see.
Keep going through the grid of dizziness. How beautiful it can be to lose consciousness, maybe just a corner of consciousness squared off and swept away. The grid of losing your grip.
Keep going until you find the opera in the mundane,
until you see the hidden fabulosity of the utilitarian,
until you are reflected in asphalt.
I hope to be so memorialized. It must be the cheapest option at the funeral home.
Lament is a blossoming paper clip
Take your photos faded, start them out in the attic, lost in the bottom of a shoebox.
Or bright if you prefer, as though an emperor kept sending it back for more gold and pearls:
Just keep taking. Find a view of what’s forgotten.
Let me guess, she's falling in her dream.
Let me guess, she's chasing the rain. Let me guess, you've dreamt her too. Let me guess, the night has let us go.
Put her back, she's still developing, by which I mean the world is forming around her,
just a bit of an edge of a dream
in castles of ice holding our coldest thoughts,
on empty walls and their forgotten stories.
Keep going, because art is always becoming, and never where you are.
Message edited by author 2019-04-02 12:43:50. |
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04/01/2019 02:02:22 PM · #10 |
Stay tuned to this channel |
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04/01/2019 04:59:52 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by mariuca:
I promise to keep a more modest the number of my images in the next SC. |
Anyway to place a posting governor on  mariuca? I gained 5 pounds commenting on her March side challenge entries.
Roz, thanks for your selfless diligence in keeping this side challenge alive. Still waiting on a essay from posthumous? I fell behind on comments but hope to leave a few more.
Cheers |
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04/01/2019 02:56:30 AM · #12 |
i've been told not to compare .. altho its nearly impossible .. !! ..
but you say you are shy presenting your pics of food .. comparing to the professionals of great ability ..
my personal opinion is that you have to do what you love ... altho 'have to' is a bit harsh ... more along the lines that .. if you do what you love it comes from that part of you that is deep and 'real' ..
and the less we compare with others .. then hopefully we make it easier and more natural to connect to that real place and create from our own 'source' .. unique .. no other like it ..
just my take .. and also a message to myself that i should listen to .. !! ..
THANKYOU EVERYONE ..
has been great having you all taking such an interest and giving such valuable feedback ..
dont forget the month of gratitude in april ..
thats going to be a real challenge for me .. i wonder if i will be able to stop comparing ..
altho that said .. that doesnt mean we cant get inspiration from other photographers ..
but i'm rambling .. !! .. ;)
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03/31/2019 11:33:38 PM · #13 |
Keep Moving
Thanks to Roz for wrangling all of us into this great adventure. Thanks also to everyone who commented. As always, I received much more than I gave. |
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03/31/2019 07:59:21 PM · #14 |
And once again I let myself down on this side challenge. My problems started when I switched to carrying my Olympus OMD EM5, which doesn't have wifi, meaning I could only submit photos from my computer. That became a bigger problem when South Africa went through a period of load shedding (scheduled power cuts of over 4 hours, sometimes twice in one day) leaving me little time to use my computer for anything. By the time that stopped, I'd fallen so far behind that I never got going again.
Although our power is stable at the moment there are fears that the problem will return.
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03/31/2019 07:05:42 PM · #15 |
My resolution was at least 5 photos posted...this is number 5.
I was out of town on a short trip mid-month but I managed to get it done.
This has been fun, thanks Roz. |
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03/31/2019 06:32:36 PM · #16 |
square yard or less
a bonus picture, since I missed several days
Thanks so much, Roz, for shepherding us into this meadow.
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03/31/2019 05:56:22 PM · #17 |
My last Get Outside theme. I did not get to participate as much as I wanted due to work/shooting commitments. Thank you so much Rozfor getting this side challenge going. |
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03/31/2019 03:38:29 PM · #18 |
Roz thank you, and thanks to krnodil and RKT who started the idea of these monthly SC.
The idea of Food opened a Pandora box for me and I used new and old pics that I took as souvenirs, for years. I realized after a large number of pics that I left out the wine or digestifs and a lot of other aspects a bit less material! I am very shy in presenting pics of food since there are professionals of great ability.
I promise to keep a more modest the number of my images in the next SC.
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03/31/2019 02:38:18 PM · #19 |
 Along the river banks (outside only)
Thanks Roz, it was fun to do and fun to look at all the submissions. |
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03/31/2019 02:37:02 PM · #20 |
Theme: Food and eating - Rushing to deserts - although not my favorite but so nice to admire.
 
  
 
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03/31/2019 07:02:29 AM · #21 |
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03/31/2019 06:48:17 AM · #22 |
Learning Photoshop
This is the last image for this SC. Trying blending got me to lots of nonsense images but I learned a bit on the way ;)
Thanks, Roz, for starting this thread, I will probably "bend" my Gratitude to continue with learning Photoshop :) |
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03/31/2019 04:31:18 AM · #23 |
my theme .. taking photos and doing stuff to them .. more or less .
and maybe experimenting a bit ..
i'm posting this at 7.30pm saturday night .. 31st march ..
but in some other countries you have another day before the month finishes ..
i might post another pic ..
but i just wanted to say thankyou ..
what an awesome group of ppl in this side challenge .. very dedicated .. !!! . ;)
i've loved seeing .. and being inspired by .. the photos and comments ..
thankyou everyone .. xx |
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03/31/2019 12:05:57 AM · #24 |
Keep Moving
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03/30/2019 10:40:27 PM · #25 |
 Old or wrecked cars or parts thereof.
Thanks Roz, for organising this side challenge. It's been a lot of fun. |
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